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I've been dating my boyfriend since high school, but I'm not sure we should marry

Q: I am a college senior who has had the same boyfriend since high school. He is an amazing guy, but after years of thinking he was someone I wanted to be with for life, I am rethinking thin...

DATE: Sep 22, 2015 | CATEGORY: Family

If women 'still can't have it all,' here's how dads can help everyone have more

When Anne-Marie Slaughter first gained attention in the wider world three years ago, not for her work at the State Department, but rather, for being pretty blunt about the fact that women st...

DATE: Sep 22, 2015 | CATEGORY: Family

What happened to kids addressing adults by their last names?

Special to The Washington Post I was 13 when I thought it would be fun to call my eighth grade teacher by her first name. More out of boredom than disrespect, my normally good jud...

DATE: Sep 22, 2015 | CATEGORY: Family

Nine ways being a mom makes me a better entrepreneur

Starting a high-tech startup with two children in diapers probably sounds like a bad idea. It’s never easy to balance a business with raising children, yet alone when they are 1 and 3 years ...

DATE: Sep 18, 2015 | CATEGORY: Family

Trichy parenting: How I learned to try to see the whole picture that is my daughter

Trichotillomania. It doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue, now does it? When my daughter first started pulling, she was 9 and it was like a tornado of energy had ripped though her....

DATE: Sep 18, 2015 | CATEGORY: Family

Kim Cattrall: 'I am not a biological parent, but I am a parent'

Can you consider yourself a parent without having or adopting children of your own? “Sex and the City” star Kim Cattrall thinks so. “I am not a biological parent, but ...

DATE: Sep 18, 2015 | CATEGORY: Family

Here's the deal, little negotiator

Q: My 7-year-old is a big-time negotiator on just about everything: how many treats, how long for screen time, punishments, how long he has to clean. Literally anything we want to do he come...

DATE: Sep 18, 2015 | CATEGORY: Family

The story of how a newborn's cry may have helped save her mother's life

In the predawn hours of one Saturday last September, Shelly Cawley’s husband and their newborn daughter were being escorted through hallways of a North Carolina hospital. Cawley had slipped ...

DATE: Sep 17, 2015 | CATEGORY: Family

Baggage Check: Should I unfriend my own wife?

Q: My wife antagonizes people on Facebook. She deliberately posts provocative status updates, often political, and comes across as very judgmental and black-or-white in her interactions. She...

DATE: Sep 17, 2015 | CATEGORY: Family

Can online shaming shut down the Internet's most skin-crawly creeps?

After more than 10 years in the bubbling cesspool of Internet dating, Maggie Serota is no stranger to creeps. She’s gotten messages from fetishists, from sweetheart scammers, from men decade...

DATE: Sep 17, 2015 | CATEGORY: Family

Reno’s divorce history chronicled in new online exhibit

RENO, Nev. – From the tales of the rich and famous, to stories from ordinary people who flocked to Reno for quickie-divorces before World War II, University of Nevada researchers have launch...

DATE: Sep 15, 2015 | CATEGORY: Family

Being 'PC' isn't foolish, it's respectful

I’m sensing something in the air these days, and it’s unsettling. At a recent dinner party, my host went on a rant about Caitlyn Jenner (whom she insisted on calling “Bruce Jenner”), which d...

DATE: Sep 15, 2015 | CATEGORY: Family